Jerweb Realty v. Greaves

DECISION & ORDER

*1  Appeal from an order of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Kings County (Marcia J. Sikowitz, J.), entered March 12, 2015. The order, insofar as appealed from and as limited by the brief, denied the branch of tenant’s motion seeking to punish landlord and nonparty Larry Jeremias, landlord’s managing agent, for civil contempt for violating orders of the same court dated September 4, 2014 and September 22, 2014, directing landlord to restore tenant’s apartment to a habitable condition. ORDERED that the order entered March 12, 2015, insofar as appealed from, is affirmed, without costs.After tenant had been evicted pursuant to a nonpayment final judgment, landlord immediately began to demolish tenant’s apartment’s bathroom and kitchen, rendering the premises uninhabitable. By order dated September 4, 2014, the Civil Court granted a motion by tenant to be restored to possession and directed landlord to restore tenant to possession upon tenant’s payment of arrears in the sum of $8,519.51, in effect, by September 16, 2014 and to restore the premises to a habitable condition forthwith upon such payment. Tenant failed to make the payment due by September 16, 2014 and, instead, moved, by order to show cause dated September 16, 2014, to, among other things,